This email was sent to you by WineRelease.com.
To ensure delivery to your inbox (not bulk or junk folders), please add "nmonnens@WineRelease.com" to your address book or safe list.
Having difficulty viewing this email? View it here.

Wineries, if you aren't on Twitter, I recommend you start.
It is easy to do and would be great for us wine lovers to follow our favorite wineries. We want to know what restaurants are pouring your wine by the glass, what foods go well with your wines, when your wines are released, when they are shipping, harvest updates, what events you will be attending, news about your wines, close out sales... you get the picture.
Vintank released a whitepaper profiling social media companies impacting the wine industry and I recommend downloading their exhaustive report: here
If you are a winery and have a Twitter and/or Facebook account (or know winery Twitter/Facebook winery names), reply to this email and I will add to the WineRelease directory page (72 Winery Twitter URLs are there now) so our subscribers can follow.

Thanks to all who responded to WineRelease.com's Restaurant Wine Survey.
We were very pleased with the results and passionate feedback.
The next time we do a survey, and we plan to do many more, we will allow feedback for each question because you are a passionate bunch.
We started a blog to allow you to see each survey question/response and comment. Here is the link: http://WineRelease.blogspot.com/

I have been wanting to do the Restaurant wine survey for over a year because of question number 7 - "Currently when ordering wine in most restaurants, you initially taste and determine if the wine is acceptable.
If you don't think the wine is acceptable, the waiter/sommelier tastes the wine. Should the sommelier (or waiter) taste the wine initially?"

69% of you want to keep the current method of being the taster. I disagree. Hear me out on this.
I want the waiter/sommelier to taste the wine (a small 1/4 ounce) for 2 primary reasons;

They have experience with the wine more than I do because they will have tasted the wine many times while working.

They would be better at recommending wines on their list if they were constantly tasting the wines.

I still believe the customer should be the person who determines if the wine is flawed, but sometimes I am unsure and I would rather have he/she try first. Voice your opinion by clicking here.

..........................................................................
A B O U T : This is the monthly WineRelease email published on the 15th of every month by WineRelease.com listing wine releases for the next month.
..........................................................................
P R I V A C Y : Your privacy is safe. Your email will never be sold, rented or bartered to anyone without your consent.
..........................................................................
C O P Y R I G H T : We welcome and appreciate forwarding WineRelease publications in their entirety or in part with proper attribution: Source: 2009 WineRelease.com http://www.WineRelease.com..........................................................................
L E G A L N O T I C E S : While WineRelease.com used its best efforts in collecting and preparing the information published herein, WineRelease.com does not assume, and hereby disclaims, any liability for any loss or damage caused by errors or omissions, whether such errors or omissions resulted from negligence, accident or other causes.
..........................................................................
S U B S C R I P T I O N S : WineRelease.com is published on the 15th of the month. Subscriptions are free and sign-up is easy, just input your email on the WineRelease home page.
..........................................................................
A R C H I V E S : Past wine release information can be found here: http://www.WineRelease.com/Past_Releases/Previous_dates.html.
Past newsletters can be found here: http://www.WineRelease.com/Past_Newsletters/Previous_newsletters.html..........................................................................
C O N T A C T : Email mailATWineRelease.com and replace "AT" with"@".
..........................................................................
..........................................................................
U N S U B S C R I B E : This message has been sent to you because you signed up to receive it. If you no longer wish to receive this monthly Email, reply with the word "Remove" in the subject and you will be promptly removed from our mailing list. Alternatively you can write: WineRelease.com 1592 Union St. #232 San Francisco, CA 94123
..........................................................................